Detta konstnärliga examensarbete är ett försök att som pianist nå en fördjupad förståelse för Franz Schuberts Drei Klavierstücke (D.946). Verket komponerades under Schuberts dödsår 1828 men var det i mars eller maj? Syftet är att framföra Drei Klavierstücke på bästa möjliga sätt. Det utförs genom kontextualisering av Schubert liv och en fördjupad analys av hans musik samt jämförelser av olika partiturutgåvor, finnandet och problematiseringen utav Schuberts huruvida verket skrivs i mars eller maj, samt att erhålla djuplodade kunskaper som underlag för att skapa minnesvärda associativa titlar. Därigenom kan jag bättre visualisera inom mig det som ska spelas. Med andra ord, den konstnärliga gestaltningen byggs därmed upp genom min visualisering av verket i min instudering. De första två styckena i Drei Klavierstücke hänger utan tvekan ihop med varandra (Leisinger, et al., 2015) och därför har jag valt att framföra dessa två på min examenskonsert. I studien vill jag ändå skapa associativa titlar till alla tre styckena. Med en konstnärlig metod samt litterära kunskaper på tyska, engelska och svenska skapade jag de associativa namnen. Dessa redovisas i studiens resultatkapitel, med originalspråk på tyska: Reise in Jenseits in Drei Teilen, 1. Lebensende, 2. Jenseits, 3. Himmelstür. Emellertid skapades även översättning på svenska: 1. Livetsslut, 2. Efterlivet, 3. Pärleporten. Gällande mars eller maj lämnar förlagens svar på detta öppet. Enligt dem stavades maj som M-A-Y. Schubert talade sannolikt engelska då han tidigare arbetat som hjälplärare. Det verkar ändå konstigt att ange månaden på engelska i ett dokument som i övrigt författades på tyska? / This artistic thesis is an attempt to reach a deeper understanding of the piano pieces Drei Klavierstücke (D.946) composed by Franz Schubert in 1828, but was it in March or May? The aim is for me as a pianist to perform Franz Schubert's Drei Klavierstücke in the best possible way. It is carried out through contextualization of Schubert's life and an in-depth analysis of his music as well as comparisons of different score editions, the finding and problematization of Schubert's writing of May or March, as well as obtaining deep knowledge as a basis for creating memorable associative titles. This way I can better visualize a representation of the work in my rehearsal. The first two pieces of Drei Klavierstücke are undoubtedly related to each other (Leisinger, et al., 2015) and therefore I have chosen to perform these two at my graduation concert. In the study, I still want to create associative titles for all three pieces. With a poetic method and literary knowledge in German, English and Swedish, I created the associative names. These are reported in the result chapter of the study, with original language in German: Reise in Jenseits in Drei Teilen, 1. Lebensende, 2. Jenseits, 3. Himmelstür. However, an English and a Swedish translation was also created: 1. End of Life, 2. Afterlife, 3. Heaven’s Gate. Regarding March or May, the publisher's answer to this is left open. According to them, May was spelled M-A-Y. Schubert, who was previously an assistant teacher, certainly spoke English. However, why would he do that in a document that was otherwise written in German? / <p>Repertoar:</p><p>Leoš Janáček (1854 – 1928)”På en övervuxen stig”, Serie I1. Våra kvällar (Naše večery)2. Ett bortblåst löv (Lístek odvanutý)4. Madonnan av Frydek (Frýdecká panna Maria)</p><p>Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)Drei Klavierstücke, D.946 posth.I. Allegro assai, ”Lebensende, The End of Life, Livetsslut.”II. Allegretto, “Jenseits, Afterlife, Efterlivet.”</p><p>Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 – 1927)Tre fantasier för piano, Op. 11.Nr. 1 Molto appassionato</p><p>Paus</p><p>Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849)Ballad Nr. 3, Ass dur, Op. 47  </p><p>Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) arr. Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)Liebeslied (Widmung), S. 566.Ur: Myrthen op. 25   </p><p>Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)ur: Sonat Nr. 21 C-Dur Op.53II. Introduzione: Adagio moltoIII. Rondo. Allegretto moderato — Prestissimo</p><p>- - -</p><p>Medverkande: Daniel Chun, piano.</p><p>Georg Asplund, KMH lärarstudent inriktining musik och mediaproduktion,  uppgift: videofilm.</p><p>Axel Wokander, KMH klassisk musik pianostudent, uppgift: bild projektor keynote.</p><p>- - -</p><p>Keynote presentation som visades på storskärm, innehöll namn på repertoar för publikens skull.</p><p>- - - </p><p>Videofilm på konserten, togs från inifrån scenen och fångar även publiken förutom vänster sida av pianisten Daniel Chun och pianot.</p>

Master of Music / Department of Music / Patricia Thompson / This report contains biographical, historical, and analytical commentary on the following composers and their pieces for soprano voice: Henry Purcell and The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation; Franz Schubert and Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister, Op. 62, D. 877; Jacques Offenbach and Les oiseaux dans la charmille, from Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Libby Larsen and Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII; Charles Gounod and Ah! Je veux vivre, from Roméo et Juliette. These selections, unified by the theme of tragedy in various forms of love, were presented in a graduate recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy degree.

Because of the lack of information concerning the success or failure of Schubert's bilingual edition and concerning the relationship between the English texts and Schubert's settings, most performers take the conservative route of performing both the songs from Lady of the Lake and the rest of Schubert's English song repertoire only with the German translations. Because of the desirability of performing this repertoire in English for English-speaking audiences, this study examines all of the English songs of Schubert to determine whether the original poems can be successfully substituted for the German translations. Editions of the settings that can be effectively performed with the English texts are included in the appendix, in order to make available editions which reflect Schubert's ambition to make his songs easily accessible to non-German-speaking audiences.

This investigation sought to compare the transcription techniques of two pianist-composers, Godowsky and Liszt, using three Schubert lieder as examples. The lieder were "Das Wandern" from Die Schöne Müllerin, "Gute Nacht" from Winterreise, and "Liebesbotschaft" from Schwanengesang. They were compared using four criteria: tonality, counterpoint, timbral effects, and harmony. Liszt, following a practice common in the nineteenth century, was primarily concerned with bringing new music into the home of the domestic pianist. The piano transcription was the most widely used and successful medium for accomplishing this. Liszt also frequently transcribed pieces of a particular composer in order to promulgate them by featuring them in his recitals. The Schubert lieder fall into this category. Liszt did not drastically alter the original in these compositions. Indeed, in the cases of "Liebesbotschaft" and "Das Wandern," very little alteration beyond the incorporation of the melody into the piano accompaniment, occurs.Godowsky, in contrast, viewed the transcription as a vehicle for composing a new piece. He intended to improve upon the original by adding his own inspiration to it. Godowsky was particularly ingenious in adding counterpoint, often chromatic, to the original. Examples of Godowsky's use of counterpoint can be found in "Das Wandern" and "Gute Nacht." While Liszt strove to remain faithful to Schubert's intentions, Godowsky exercised his ingenuity at will, being only loosely concerned with the texture and atmosphere of the lieder. "Gute Nacht" and "Liebesbotschaft" are two examples that show how far afield Godowsky could stray from the original by the addition of chromatic voicing and counterpoint. Godowsky*s compositions can be viewed as perhaps the final statement on the possibilities of piano writing in the traditional sense. As such these works deserve to be investigated and performed.

The primary purpose of this thesis will be to examine the orchestration of the trombone section in the Viennese symphonies of the early Romantic period. In order to fully understand the function of the trombone section in these syphonies, a review of the trombones usage in previous centuries is in order.

The study of algebraic varieties originates from the study of smooth manifolds. One of the focal points is the theory of differential forms and de Rham cohomology. It’s algebraic counterparts are given by algebraic cycles and Chow groups. Linearizing and taking the pseudo-abelian envelope of the category of smooth projective varieties, one obtains the category of pure motives. In this thesis, we concentrate on studying the pure Chow motives of Severi-Brauer varieties. This has been a subject of intensive investigation for the past twenty years, with major contributions done by Karpenko, [Kar1], [Kar2], [Kar3], [Kar4]; Panin, [Pan1], [Pan2]; Brosnan, [Bro1], [Bro2]; Chernousov, Merkurjev, [Che1], [Che2]; Petrov, Semenov, Zainoulline, [Pet]; Calmès, [Cal]; Nikolenko, [Nik]; Nenashev, [Nen]; Smirnov, [Smi]; Auel, [Aue]; Krashen, [Kra]; and others. The main theorem of the thesis, presented in sections 4.3 and 4.4, extends the result of Zainoulline et al. in the paper [Cal] by providing new examples of motivic decompositions of generalized Severi-Brauer varieties.

The Viennese music theoretician Heinrich Schenker opposed modernity during his entire life. At first, this opposition applied to new technologies as well. Despite his skepticism, he purchased a radio shortly after the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (RAVAG) started broadcasting in October 1924 and soon became an avid radio listener. Schenker quickly grasped the advantages of this new transmission medium and used it to further his own interests, aided by personal contacts with the RAVAG. In 1928, his associate Otto Erich Deutsch delivered a radio lecture co-authored with Schenker about the goals of the “Archive for Photograms of Musical Master Manuscripts” which was founded at Schenker’s instigation. In 1934, the RAVAG sponsored a competition, awarding the best text to a song fragment by Franz Schubert which in turn was discovered by Deutsch. Since the textless fragment lacks the final measures, Schenker had previously composed an ending for the song which was also performed on the radio.

In contrast to Beethoven’s music, Schubert’s music has been described through the concept of “a-finality” (Fischer 1983), employing the same elements repeatedly. In this sense, Schubert’s music seems incompatible with the kind of “processual” thinking which is typical for Beethoven’s music. This paper addresses such incompatibility through a comparison of the slow movements of Schubert’s piano sonata D 840 with those of Beethoven’s piano sonata No. 8 (op. 13) which is one of the possible precursors for D 840. The second movement of D 840 features an ABABA structure in which the themes of the first part A and the first part B become integrated into the second part A. This kind of integration differs fundamentally from the design of Beethoven’s op. 13, insofar as the two themes are combined while they also maintain their initial form. This mode of combination suggests Schubert’s own type of synthetic or “processual” thinking.

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Der Beitrag widmet sich einer besonderen und bislang nicht zusammenhängend beschriebenen Spielart der 5–6-Konsekutive bei Schubert, die sich als halbtönig-enharmonischer Zirkel verstehen lässt. Die Argumentation bewegt sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen systematischen und historisch informierten Denkweisen; dabei werden latente Widersprüche aufgezeigt und an Dokumenten der frühen Rezeptionsgeschichte belegt. / This article addresses a particular and as-yet insufficiently explained manner of employing the 5–6 consecutive in Schubert that can be understood as a circle of enharmonic half-steps. The argumentation embraces the tension between systematic and historically informed modes of thought, revealing latent contradictions that are supported using documents drawn from early reception history of this work.